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procfram of Celebrations During 

Lincoln ^eek 




One whose meek flock the people joyed to be, 
Not lured by any cheat of birth, 
But by his clear-grained human worth. 

And brave old wisdom of sincerity! 

at the 

Chicago Rebrcw Institute 

485 aic9t Caylor Street 
february 10-11-12-13^ ipop* 



FOURSCORE and seven years ago our 
fathers brought forth on this continent 
a new nation, conceived in Hberty, and 
dedicated to the proposition that all men 
are created equal. 
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, 
testing whether that nation, or any nation so 
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. 
We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field 
as a final resting place for those who here gave 
their lives that tl$at nation might live. It is 
altogether fitting ai|d proper that we should do this. 
But in a largeri*sense, we cannot dedicate — 
we cannot consecrate — we cannot hallow — this 
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who 
struggled here, have consecrated it far above our 
poor power to add or detract. The world will 
little note nor long remember what we say here, 
but it can never forget what they did here. It is 
for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to 
the unfinished work which they who fought here 
have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather 
for us to be here dedicated to the great task re- 
maining before us — that from these honored dead 
we take increased devotion to that cause for which 
they gave the last full measure of devotion; that 
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not 
have died in vain; that this nation, under God, 
shall have a new birth of freedom; and that govern- 
ment of the people, by the people, for the people, 
shall not perish'from the earth. — Dedication of the 
National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa., November 
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^cdncsday^ fcbruary lotb 

8 P. M. 

Celebration arranged for Yiddish 

speaking people, especially for 

newly arrived Jewish 

immigrants 

DR. DAVID BLAUSTEIN, Presiding. 

program 

'Tlag- of the Free" 

Chicago Hebrew Institute Glee Chib 

Introductory Remarks Chairman 

Vocal Solo Mv. Frank Sherman 

Selections from Lincoln's Addresses 

Miss Rose Rosenberg 

"Illinois" Chicago Hebrew Institute Glee Club 

Address, ''Leaders of Men" Mr. Leon Zolotkoff 

"Life of Lincoln" with Stereopticon Views 

Mr. Harry A. Lipsky 

"America" Audience 

"We have among us men who have come from 
Europe and settled here, finding themselves our 
equal in all things. If they look back through 
this history to trace their connection with those 
. days by blood, they find they have none: they 
cannot carry themselves back into that glorious 
epoch and make themselves feel that they are 
part of us: but when they look through that old 
Declaration of Independence, they find that those 
old men say that "We hold these truths to be 
self-evident, that all men are created equal," and 
then they feel that that moral sentiment taught 
in that day evidences their relation to those men, 
that is the father of all moral principle in them, 
and that they have a right to claim it as though 
they were blood of the blood, flesh of the flesh, 
of the men wdio wrote that Declaration, and so 
they are. That is the electric cord in that 
Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and 
libertydoving men together, that will link those 
patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom 
exists in the minds of men throughout the 
world." 



Thursday^ february i itb 

8 P. M. 

Public Celebration under the joint 

auspices of the Jewish 

Organizations of 

Chicago 

MR. JULIUS ROSENWALD, Presiding. 

program 

March Boys' Lyric Band 

Direction of Mr. D. P. Pollock. 

''Illinois" Chicago Hebrew Institute Glee Club 

Introductory Remarks Chairman 

Violin Solo, "Sicard-Russian Dances" 

Mme. Stone-Zukowsky 

Address, ''Lincoln and the Jewish Spirit" 

Dr. E. A. Fischkin 

Vocal Solo Mrs. Maurice M. Strauss 

Address Dr. Emil G. Hirsch 

"America" 

Boys' Lyric Band and Audience 

"Our government rests in public opinion. Who- 
ever can change public opinion can change the 
government practically just so much. Public 
opinion, on any subject, always has a "central 
idea," from which all its minor thoughts radiate. 
That "central idea" in our political opinion at the 
beginning was, and until recently has continued 
to be, "the equality of men." And although it 
has always submitted patiently to whatever of 
inequality there seemed to be as matter of actual 
necessity, its constant working has been a steady 
progress toward the practical equality of all 
men." 



friday^ fcbruary i2tb 
3:30 P. M. 

Celebration for Young People 

MISS JULIA I. FELSENTHAL, Presiding. 

program 

Chorus Chicago Hebrew Institute Glee Club 

Introductory Remarks Chairman 

Vocal Solo Miss Julia Weinshenker 

''The Nightingale" — Arthur A. Tenn. 
'1 Know Not Why" — Words by Morris Rosenfeld. 
Music by Helen Bingham. 
Mr, Schaub at the piano. 

Address Miss Jane Addams 

"Captain, My Captain" Miss Louise Loeb 

Chorus Chicago Hebrew Institute Glee Club 

Address, "Some Lessons from the Life of Lincoln" 
Mr. Israel Cowen, President, 

Jewish Chautauqua Society 
"America" Audience 



"The way for a young man to rise is to improve 
himself every way he can, never suspecting that 
anybody wishes to hinder him. Allow me to as- 
sure you that suspicion and jealousy never did 
help any man in any situation. There may some- 
times be ungenerous attempts to keep a young 
man down: and they will succeed, too, if he al- 
lows his mind to be diverted from its true chan- 
nel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast 
about, and see if this feeling has not injured 
every person you have ever known to fall into it. 
You cannot fail in any laudable object, unless 
you allow your mind to be improperly directed." 



Saturday^ f cbruary 1 3tb 

3 p. M. 

Celebration for Children. In connec- 
tion with the regular Sabbath 
Afternoon Services 
for Children 

program 

Regular Mincha Service 

Mr. A. I. Ag-ranat, Cantor. 
Mr. D. P. Pollock, in Charge of Choir. 

'The Banner of Freedom" School 

Address Rabbi Joseph Stolz 

Anthem, ''Adon Olam" School 

Reading of Prayer, written especially for the occasion 

"America" Audience 

Benediction. 



"Away back in my childhood, the earliest days of 
my being able to read, I got hold of a small book, 
Weems' "Life of Washington." I remember all 
the accounts there given of the battle-fields and 
struggles (of our forefathers) for the liberties 
of the country. I recollect thinking then, boy 
even though 1 was, that there must have been 
something more than common that these men 
struggled for. I am exceedingly anxious that 
that thing that something even more than na- 
tional independence: that something that held 
out a great promise to all the people of the 
world to all time to come — I am exceedingly anxious 
that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of 
the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the 
original idea for which that struggle was made, and I 
shall be most happy indeed if I shall be a humble in- 
strument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, 
His almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object 
of that great struggle." 



Hmcrica 

My country! 'tis of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, 

Of thee I sing. 
Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the pilgrim's pride; 
From ev'ry mountain side 

Let freedom ring. 

My native country, thee. 
Land of the noble free. 

Thy name I love; 
I love thy rocks and rills. 
Thy woods and templ'd hills; 
My heart with rapture thrills 

Like that above. 

Let music swell the breeze, 
And ring from all the trees, 

Sweet freedom's song; 
Let mortal tongues awake, 
Let all that breathe partake, 
Let rocks their silence break. 

The sound prolong. 

Our fathers' God, to Thee, 
Author of liberty. 

To Thee we sing. 
Long may our land be bright 
With freedom's holy light. 
Protect us by Thy might. 

Great God, our king. 



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